A spousal sequence closes, and scrambling ensues

The reason: Alfred Angelo abruptly sealed a some-more than 60 wedding-dress stores Wednesday, withdrawal brides racing to figure out if they would get a gowns they had ordered. On Friday, a association filed for bankruptcy.

There are 3 Alfred Angelo Bridal locations in Massachusetts — in Danvers, Dedham, and North Attleboro.

The closings combined an component of panic to a marriage routine mostly filled with stress, and brides and bridesmaids common their annoyance on Twitter and Facebook. They rushed to figure out a standing of their orders, and store employees were left perplexing to explain a situation.

Cyndi Whitten of Houston, whose daughter had systematic a $1,500 robe from Alfred Angelo for her marriage in October, said, “This has incited into a many formidable and stressful partial of a whole thing. You only wanted to lay there and detonate into tears since your daughter’s easy partial of a marriage isn’t so easy.”

The company, that non-stop in 1933, did not respond to phone calls and emails seeking comment. Patricia Redmond, a counsel who represents Alfred Angelo, did not lapse a phone call.

In a minute to business performed by The New York Times, Redmond wrote that a association would “encourage” a disaster keeper to “finish and perform as many orders as possible.”

Despite a conflict after a store closings, Angelo Alfred has pronounced zero about a conditions publicly. Some business satisfied that a association had close down after anticipating signs posted on sealed store doors.

A private association formed in Delray Beach, Florida, Alfred Angelo sole a dresses during 1,400 other retailers, in further to handling a possess stores, according to a website. Like other spousal companies, it has faced vigour from spousal conform startups and normal retailers pulling low prices. In a disaster filing, a association pronounced it had no some-more than $50,000 in resources though some-more than $50 million in liabilities.

Competitors were rushing to gain on a company’s demise. David’s Bridal offering discounts to Alfred Angelo business if they can uncover a receipt from a store, as good as giveaway rushed alterations.

Alfred Angelo’s disaster led Alex Pacifico and her co-workers during a company’s spousal store nearby Dayton, Ohio, to spend Thursday radically using a riotous sell operation. They scrambled to get business gowns they had systematic and told business to take representation equipment they had on hand.

“If we had what business indispensable in a store, they were some-more than acquire to take it with them,” she said.

But other brides-to-be and members of their marriage parties were not so lucky.

Christine Danielle, who also lives in Houston, systematic a dress from a spousal tradesman in May to wear to a wedding. As of Friday afternoon, she had been incompetent to figure out where a $195 dress was.

“There’s no dress in sight, no reinstate in sight,” Danielle said.

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Shannon Bailey of Monrovia, Calif., who spent $2500 dollars on a marriage dress and dual dresses for her bridesmaids, stands outward a sealed Alfredo Angelo store as she is comforted by her boyfriend, Jonathan Miranda, in West Covina, Calif., on Friday.

Along with a brides, employees during Alfred Angelo were also left in a lurch. Pacifico disturbed that she would not get paid for hours worked this week and will remove out on sales commissions.

She pronounced a shutting left some business were angry, blaming a workers for a situation. The employees during a Dayton store worked for about 12 hours that day — for no compensate — perplexing to assistance customers, Pacifico said.

“They cussed us out,” she said. “They called us names. It’s a really frustrating conditions for all parties.”

Whitten, a mom in Houston, pronounced she and her daughter started conference on amicable media and spousal discuss play that Alfred Angelo competence be shutting a stores. Her trainer let her off work an hour early Thursday so she could revisit a store where her daughter had purchased a gown.

When she arrived during a store around 5:30 p.m., a clerk who had helped her daughter let Whitten into a sealed store. The clerk pronounced she remembered Whitten’s daughter and found a representation dress in a same style.